I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

When it comes the horror genre, I am VERY hard to please or impress, much less scare. Coming from a current mindset of appreciation for chilling, unsettling, tension-inducing efforts such as "Hereditary", "The Conjuring" (ONLY the first one to date, mind you), "Lights Out", "The Babadook", "Midsommar", "Talk To Me", "Oddity", "Bring Her Back", and the like, this Summer sequel offered low expectations for me other than to end up providing what I more so anticipated...a good laugh.

I know this sounds "awful" in a sense, given the film IS trying to be a SERIOUS entry into the genre of slasher horror and hence imbue the viewer with a sense of dread and menace, but honestly, it just didn't DO that. At least not very effectively. A direct follow-up to the 1997 parent film, the return to Southport and a new group of unwitting yet forewarned/should-really-know-better young adults being pursued by a killer for a rather egregious misstep they try to hide is, perhaps, expectedly formulaic but for me annoyingly so.